08.21.07

VMware is challenging Google for Silicon Valley’s most-coveted prize: computer-programming talent.VMware, which went public last week and has a market value one-seventh of Google’s, is wooing code writers with salaries that recall the dot-com heyday of the late 1990s, headhunters and analysts say. The salaries are more than other software companies in the area are offering, said Trip Chowdhry, an analyst at Global Equities Research.